Ireland.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 159, 8 December 1847, Page 4

Ireland.

Harvest Prospkcts — The Potato Chop. — It i* with (lift dttpesi and most heartfelt satisfaction we an* nounce that the reports from all partt of the country continue to represent the appearance of the com and potato cropi as foretelling mch abundance as must en* tirely remove any dismal forebodings to which the po» tato rot of lait year hare given birth. Never did this crop look more strong or healthy, or give more reasonable expectations of an abudant yield.— Dublin Packet ef Saturday. Our reporter (says the Clare Journal) has been travelling through the counties of Clare and Limerick. In the latter county, vegetation hat assumed a most refreshing appearance.— The Westmeath Guardian says, the accounts received of the potato crops in the past week all tend to confirm the truth of the reports that they are in a healthy state, and progressing, with vigour unsurpassed in any season. to maturity. Daring the pait three or four days, a considerable quantity of rain has fallen in this neighbourhood, which will materially serve the growing crops. Nothing can exceed the delightful appearance of the country, and the most cheering hopes are entertained by the farmer as to the result of the ensuing harvest.— Erne Packet. The accounts from every district are of the same cheering import ai the above. Immense Arrival op Bread-stufm —We announce with pleasure the arrival, yesterday into our harbour of thirty-two vessels of large tonnage, laden with maize, flour, and wheat. Our advices from Cove this morning, half-past nine o'clock announce a futher arrival of thirty«two vessels, similarly laden, with a laigo number outside the harbonr. The quantity of b.ead.st tiffs brought amounts to 10,177 tons, which, added to that brought by this morning 1 ! arri» val, about lfi.ooo— makes a total of 20,177 tons. r J bis is cheering news for the country. Our harbour never preiented so gay a spectacle as at presents there being over 230 vessels of all tonnage, and bearing at their mast-heads the flags of nearly every coun* try in the universe. It is s»id outside of the mouth of the harbour, or on their way to it, alre no less then hundreds of other vessels bearing similar welcome freightage for the great wants of our people. — Cork Examiner.

Great Britain. — The great alterations in mechanics, the application of chemistry to agriculture, and the unlimited powers of., steam, seem to have opened to the people of Great Britain a new, and assuredly no unreal field of view. Under forms from which the philosopher may turn away, as from empty symbols of material civilisation, the great ideas of an infinite extentionof manly power and manly industry have been developed : with the exception of the superficial extent of tuis little island, every element of society is here in a state of rapid and endless grow th. The population almost doubles itself in the course of a man's lifetime. The natural resources of the toil are continually increased ty the application of science. What can -always be achieved by power, can now be executed with certainty by means of the wonderful natural element which man renders subordinate to his service. In all directions, the walls of the world— the horizon of society—appears on the point of vanishing, and nobody can venture to fix a limit to the exertions or the acts of man in reference to his earthly existence on this planet. — Augsburg Gazette.